SAN DIEGO & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HealthCare
Anytime and ICA,
a leading provider of interoperability technology that enables care
coordination and health information exchange (HIE), announced today astrategic partnership that will combine the technologies of the
two companies to strengthen clinical data transfer and patient
engagement applications through a streamlined data gathering, cleansing
and delivery process.

HealthCare Anytime’s approach to patient engagement coupled with
advanced clinical data availability from ICA’s CareAlign®
interoperability engine will provide a mechanism to capture and
distribute data from and to multiple care settings and multiple systems
into HealthCare Anytime’s portal to allow patient viewing. In turn,
HealthCare Anytime’s patient portal will provide an added tool for ICA’s
current client base, enabling it to offer patients a way to see their
clinical information and participate more completely in their own
healthcare. Both solutions will facilitate secure communication between
patients and providers through the use of Direct messaging across a
wider set of applications across the healthcare system.

“HealthCare Anytime’s focus on patient engagement bringing robust
self-service, 24/7 access and solid privacy and confidentiality blends
nicely with the powerful data exchange and informatics engine of
CareAlign,” said Gary Zegiestowsky, president and CEO of ICA. “Patient
engagement is regarded as one of the core components of seamless and
effective care coordination, and together, our companies hope to make an
impact that will improve outcomes and efficiencies. In an era when the
nation is focused on the Triple Aim of reducing costs, increasing
quality and improving patient satisfaction, the essential element for
ACOs and other entities is a better engaged patient population. This
alliance between our two companies strengthens healthcare across the
entire continuum, allowing ICA the ability to better assist our clients,
provide broad patient-centric care for the population served and meet
the requirements of Meaningful Use regarding patient engagement.”

“CareAlign’s multifaceted and powerful interoperability, analytics and
clinical communications tools wedded with HealthCare Anytime’s patient
engagement portal strengthens both companies’ offerings,” added Ron
Luetmer, vice president of sales at HealthCare Anytime. “Our always
available portal will give 24/7 access to clinical information for those
patients served by ICA’s clients. And, our portal will benefit from the
interoperability and analytics power that ICA adds to our patient access
tools by fueling our portal with robust and always current patient data.”

HealthCare Anytime offers a robust enterprise patient portal for
hospitals and clinics to achieve meaningful patient engagement,
including for the purposes of Meaningful Use Stage 2. Its SaaS-based
model enables patients to participate in their own care online, creating
a safe and secure virtual office for healthcare organizations. Its
cloud-based applications include:

Patient Health Record (PHR)to provide patients the ability to
view, download and transmit their health information to third parties;

ICA’s CareAlign solution suite is comprised of a series of modules that
work together to facilitate health information exchange and ultimately
enable care coordination. These modules include:

CareAlign
Exchange – A comprehensive interoperability platform that
facilitates the seamless and secure exchange of healthcare data across
a widening continuum of healthcare settingsand provides a
strong and flexible foundation for broad clinical information exchange

CareAlign
Collaborate – A clinical portal that aggregates health information
from multiple settings and provides a complete longitudinal,
patient-centric view of a patient’s clinical history to healthcare
providers regardless of the technology in place

CareAlign Insight – Aclinical analytics platform that
extracts, normalizes, monitors and deposits data into a repository
during the health information exchange process and can be accessed via
a CareAlign portal or third party applications for dashboard creation,
bio-surveillance, ad-hoc queries and patient portal applications

CareAlign Direct – A SaaS-based clinical communications solution using
the Direct protocol that enables the secure transport of clinical
communication across the continuum of care regardless of EHR
technology in place and is embedded within the CareAlign Exchange
platform as a first step toward a full interoperability and analytics
solution

HealthCare Anytime provides robust enterprise patient portal solutions
that help healthcare organizations improve patient engagement, operate
more efficiently, and get paid faster. Our solutions are offered in a
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, which means that we handle hosting,
implementation, training, and ongoing support. Our portal applications
were all written in JAVA, and are hosted in a secure, highly reliable
cloud-based environment.

About ICA

Originating from clinical informatics solutions developed within
Vanderbilt Medical Center, ICA’s state-of-the-art CareAlign®
interoperability and informatics platform addresses and solves data and
communication challenges for many healthcare entities, including
hospitals, IPAs, IDNs, HIEs, payers and others. CareAlign delivers a
flexible architecture to connect, collect, consume and intelligently
distribute data through Direct, IHE, HL7, and custom methods for use in
EHRs, third party applications, and ICA’s applications. CareAlign unites
a wide range of information supporting analytics associated with
population health management, transitions of care communication,
re-admissions reduction, meaningful use requirements and PCMH/ACO
operations. Visit www.icainformatics.com,
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